From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suction \Suc"tion\, noun [L. sugere, suctum, to suck; cf. OF. suction. See {Suck}, verb (used with an object)] The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
{Suction chamber}, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers.
{Suction pipe}, {Suction valve}, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively.
{Suction pump}, the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. See Illust. of {Pump}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a force over an area produced by a pressure difference
2: the act of sucking [syn: {sucking}, {suck}]
verb
1: remove or draw away by the force of suction; "the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs"
2: empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction; "suction the uterus in an abortion"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "suction": aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, cupping, drafting, drag, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, favor, inhalation, inhalement, inside track, inspiration, interest, milking, phlebotomy, pipetting, pull, pumping, siphoning, sniff, sniffle, snuff, snuffle, special favor, suck, sucking, tapping, venesection
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